At this time in the '04 campaign, the word "netroots" was only a month old, Howard Dean was an asterisk in the polls, and a campaign blog was a novel, even scary idea. How do you control the comments on your blog? How do you instill campaign discipline into commenters? If you touch a blogger, is it contagious?
Flash forward to the '08 campaign, and we're already at the frenzied heights of Meetups, The Bat, The Sleepless Summer Tour, and The Iowa Perfect Storm.
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If this is our starting point, imagine where we're headed!